Portrait of a Girl, Probably Lady Elizabeth Cavendish-Bentinck
Former TitlePortrait of Lady Elizabeth Cavendish-Bentinck
Artist
Unknown
Formerly attributed to
English School
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1800
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Gold plated copper case with hair reserve
DimensionsSight: 2 5/16 × 1 7/8 inches (5.87 × 4.76 cm)
Framed: 2 11/16 × 3 3/16 inches (6.83 × 8.1 cm)
Framed: 2 11/16 × 3 3/16 inches (6.83 × 8.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/11
InscribedInscribed on recto, lower right: "R.C."
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a girl with natural hair wearing a white gown before a sky background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 160, as by Richard Collins, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish.
Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.
John W. and Martha Jane Starr, “Collecting Portrait Miniatures,” Antiques 80, no. 5 (November 1961): 441.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 160, p. 55, (repro.), as by Richard Collins, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish.
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John Cox Dillman Engleheart
1802
F58-60/42
